Word: box
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week the Federal Communications Commission stepped in, ordered U. S. telegraph companies to produce by Aug. 15 detailed, sworn data concerning faked telegrams against the "death sentence," destruction of files containing protest messages. Thereupon Senator Black devoted the rest of the week to looking for dirt in a cigar box...
...Cigar Box. Up for questioning was President John William Carpenter of Texas Power & Light Co., a subsidiary of American Power & Light Co. which is an affiliate of Electric Bond & Share Co. Asked Chairman Black: "Did you or did you not. between 10:30 and 12 o'clock on the Sunday before the House vote [on the "death sentence"], give anyone anything in your room at the Mayflower Hotel...
...Will you swear," pressed Chairman Black, "that you did or did not give some-thing to a Congressman which was wrapped in a piece of paper in a cigar box and that this was carried out of the hotel...
Again & again Chairman Black repeated his question, making clear meantime that Texas' Nat Patton was the Representative he suspected of receiving the box. Each time Mr. Carpenter's shaky memory refused to produce anything but a few cigars. Finally Chairman Black told him to go home and refresh his memory, come back next...
Omitting the 19th Century, the mural leaps headlong into Elizabeth Arden's magnificent 20th. A carved lacquer box spills out a few samples of available cosmetics while everywhere lithe young lady Narcissists skate, ski, sail, dive, fly, play tennis, pose with bubbles or just leap for joy. At the extreme right is a modernistic chair from which to emphasize the advantages of beauty through the centuries, a string of pearls have fallen and on which rest a gentleman's silk hat & gloves...